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The initial boats were armed with two Mk 48 turrets with either 20 mm cannon or .50 cal machine guns, two single M60 machine guns or Mk 21 machine guns and one Mk 2 Mod 0/1 .50 cal machine gun/81mm mortar in a well in the aft of the boat, but this well was eliminated in later models.
Vietnam: Standard issue machine gun, Manufactured locally at Vietnam Defense Industry (VDI). NSV: Heavy machine gun: 12.7×108mm Soviet Union Vietnam: Standard issue tank-mounted machine gun. Manufactured locally at the Z111 Factory and Vietnam Defense Industry (VDI). [51] [52] Replacing the DShK. KPV: Heavy machine gun: 14.5×114mm Soviet Union
The Patrol Air Cushion Vehicle (PACV), also known as the Air Cushion Vehicle (ACV) in Army and Coast Guard service, was a United States Navy and Army hovercraft used as a patrol boat in marshy and riverine areas during the Vietnam War between 1966 and 1970. Six hovercraft were built, three for the Army and three for the Navy.
Some crews substituted this gun for the heavier .50 caliber (12.7 mm) M2HB machine gun to increase the boat's firepower, [22]: 27 though the M2HB often proved too powerful for the flimsy vessel. While the gunner fired, the pilot had to pull forward to offset the gun's recoil or risk the boat being blown about or even capsized. [23]
Vietnam-era rifles used by the US military and allies. From top to bottom: M14, MAS 36, M16 (30 round magazine), AR-10, M16 (20 round magazine), M21, L1A1, M40, MAS 49 The Vietnam War involved the People's Army of Vietnam (PAVN) or North Vietnamese Army (NVA), National Liberation Front for South Vietnam (NLF) or Viet Cong (VC), and the armed forces of the People's Liberation Army (PLA), Soviet ...
Patrol Boat, Riverine, or PBR, is the United States Navy designation for a small rigid-hulled patrol boat used in the Vietnam War from March 1966 until 1975. They were deployed in a force that grew to 250 boats, the most common craft in the River Patrol Force, Task Force 116, and were used to stop and search river traffic in areas such as the Mekong Delta, the Rung Sat Special Zone, the Saigon ...
Used in Vietnam War: Barnegat: Patrol boat 01 (ex-Absecon) 1 United States: Captured in 1975. The ship was decommissioned in the 2000s, and the entire system was dismantled. [90] Edsall class Destroyer Escort: 03 ex-Forster: 1 United States: Captured during Vietnam War CCB. Point: Patrol boat: 1 United States: Captured in 1975. Scrapped in Ho ...
The Assault Support Patrol Boat (ASPB), known as the "Alpha Boat" was a 50 feet (15 m) patrol boat armed with two Mk 16 20 mm guns or one Mk 16 and two .50 Browning machine guns, with eight 3.5-inch rocket launchers (on forward turret), and two Mk 21 7.62mm Brownings aft. [90]